اهل

اآهِلٌ اآهل , (JK, S, Msb, K,) [said by those unacquainted with the verb أَهَلَ in the first of the senses explained in this art. to be] a kind of rel. n., (TA,) and ↓ مَأْهُولٌ, (JK, K,) A place peopled, or inhabited: (Msb:) or a place having people: (JK:) or the former has this signification; and the latter signifies having its people in it: (ISk, K:) or the former has this last signification: (Yoo, S:) pl. of the latter مَاآهِلُ, occurring in a poem of Ru-beh [app. by poetic licence for مَاآهِيلُ]. (TA.) You say قَرْيَةٌ اآهِلَةٌ A peopled, or inhabited, town or village. (Msb.) And أَمْسَتْ نِيرَانُهُمْ اآهِلَةٌ Their fires became in the evening attended by many people. (TA.)